Manufacture of garments



' Patented Sept. 1 7, 1926..

l ra'xibaneagogaaea on MURRAY H L, nrlwi innsnY'.

e'ct being tojgifnsure tlief cuttingof the ornab merited-fabric iii-sucha way that wlien 'the' broidery and the like, upon piece goods, the

embroidery for several portions of a single garment being disposed inseparate positions upon. a single piece of fabric, so that theappropriate .portionsof the garment may be cut out from the fabric, eachpiece carrying its appropriate portions of the design. This cutting outhas been done by the use of ordinary dressi'nakers patterns, which,being outlines only, cannot always be accurately positioned on thefabric so that the embroidery will berproperly centered upon the cut outpiece. Besides this, after the pieces have been cut out,the designs areapt to be distorted from true position during the process of fitting,which involves modifications of the outlines of thepiece at variouspoints,

so that when the garment is finally fitted the embroidery is apt to bemoreo-r less askew. By means of which I will now explain, I am enabledto avoid these irregularities in the completed garment, and to in. surethe correct and accurate positioning of the designs in their appropriateplaces in the finished article.

Fig. 1 is a view of a piece of fabric with typical ornamental designsfor different portions of a'dress thereon; and Fig. 2 is a view ofanother piece of inexpensive material upon which the designs arereproduced by printing or the like and are enclosed by appropriateoutlines of the several sections of the garment to which they belong.The ornai rented fabric 1 is usually of expensive material, suchasvelvet, silk, or the like, and i to permit the sections for a singlegarment to be cut therefrom.

-Upon this fabric is placed, by the manufacturer, ornamental designs,such, for iustance, as bead embroidery, indicated by the numerals 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, which are so placed upon the material as to leave ampleate section of a garment may be out. A try- *rel ates to the cutting and"several {pieces shall s preferably of an appropriate size space aroundthem from which the appropmed material w l f fmat resses;anathe a outpattern '9 isforme'dof a piece of inexi pensive material, ofpreferably-the samesize as a fabriopieee=1;yand'upon *it'is-placed, bystamping-or s milar means, the-pattern or the embroidered ornamentationof the fabric piece'l, the-various sections of ornainenta tion being"placed in positions on the piece to correspond I withtheir positions onthe piece 1:; and bein'g also 'SLH-I'OUIISlGCl by the outlines of theseveral pieces of the garment, as10,*l1, 'l2','1 3, 14,15,16, to whichthey relate.

lVhen, therefore, it is desired to make up into a" garment theornamented fabric, the

try-out piece is first used, and the sections of the garment are cutoutfrom i't-along the pattern lines. The various sections are then joinedand correctly fitted on the person'of the wearer of the garment, so thatthe try-out forms a garment of the desired cut and showing the designsin the various portions of the garment in their appropriate positions.The fact that the ornamental designs are shown upon the try-out permitsthe person, in fittingthe sections, to avoid displacement of the design,as he could not do ifhewere working with plain unornamented patternsections.

, .VVhen the try-out has been correctly fitted,

itis then taken apart and the designs on the various sections are madeto register witn the corresponding designs on the piece goods 1. Thesections are then cut from the piece goods so that they correspondaccurately with the several sections of the try-out pattern. The' fabricsections may then be united to form the finished garment, theornamentation of the various sections centering properly, andcorresponding in position with the designs on the try-out pattern.

By following the above directions, the purchaser of an expensive,ornamented dress pattern, for instance, is assured of being I able tosuccessfully cut out and fit the embroidered fabric, without errors, andso to have a thoroughly artistic and well balanced finished garment, andto do this by the aid, of anordinary seamstress or garment worker, andwithout the aid of a highly skilled tailor or artist; for my abovedescribed method eliminates thecommon errors of judgment which arelikely to occur when an unskilled person attempts to construct a garmentof ex ensive and highly ornamentliich is so arranged that each sectionof the garment mustba accurately cut from a predetermined part of themate rial, and Where mistakes in cutting cannot be remedied by cuttingnewpieces from another portion of the material.

It is obvious that the styles of the ornamentation for the difierentsections of the garment may be indefinitely varied, and that the patternoutlines can be modified to suit the different styles of garments orarticles to be made from the ornamented fabric, all Without departingfrom the principle of my invention as described and claimed.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States is The steps in the process ofcutting and fitting a garment from an expensive, Woven, textile fabric 7having ornamental designs thereon for different parts of the garment,said steps consisting in first incidentally forming a try-out garment bycutting the parts therefor from a piece of inexpensive, Woven, textilematerial bearing thereon copies of the designs of the more expensivematerial, similarly relatively positioned, and also outlines of thegarment parts, each outline being properiylocated With reference to theparticular design-copy appurtenantthereto, the cutting-out of the partsbeing guided by such outlines, and by then assembling, modifying andfitting the parts to the person of the wearer, then separating thefitted sections thus modified, positioning them as patterns on the moreexpensive fabric and in proper relation to their respec tive designsthereon, and then cutting from such fabric the ultimate garment parts byfollowing said pattern outlines.

RUDOLPH O. TRUE B.

